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An under-harbor tunnel connecting from South Station to the Eastern ROW was actually the original plan, it's why South Station is located where it is. Which doesn't mean it's a good idea now.

[yanked from other thread] The article says the new cars "would run on routes like the California Zephyr between Chicago and San Francisco and the Cardinal between New York and Chicago". Does that mean they're looking at replacing both the single-deck and double-deck fleet, or did the article...

Whether or not any of these alignments were a good idea, it is undeniable that trying to travel east-west across northern New England is a huge pain in the ass.

If all goes to plan, one day you'll be able to ride from Lechmere all the way to Northampton. And from there to New Haven if you're feeling really adventurous.

I took my kid to the Aquarium yesterday, and it looked like not one single map that was not actually on the GLX was updated. That's just inexcusable.

I don't see how that could work. It's a narrow, dead-end street with residences right up to the sound wall; there's no place to put the stairs and elevators that would be needed to get over the commuter rail and outbound GLX tracks, unless you take part of 44 Granville Ave's large side yard.

I recall there were the old-school horizontally-oriented spider maps without the Old Colony lines still up in various places for literally decades after Old Colony service was restored. Baffles my why the T hasn't fixed this problem. It's not like they're opening new stations or expansions every...

So now that they've finally built this thing, we can start complaining about it, right? I rode with my older son to Somerville High School, after we waited at least 15 minutes for a train, and when I got back to the Gilman Square station I'd just missed one and the next one wasn't for 12...

Big crowd at Ball Square this morning. Turned out nearly all of them were just there for the occasion and the platform was not particularly crowded.

The Protect Sudbury ghouls are at it again trying to kill the MCRT; this time they somehow managed to dragoon Warren and Markey into asking the STB to review the status of the corridor. A Sudbury selectman and the attorney for MassBike et. al. had things to say about this.

That's GLXX. Get it right. :-)

MGH has been one of the biggest advocates for the Red-Blue Connector (RBC?). Their plans for their new building included a Blue Line headhouse, drawn up in conjunction with the MBTA.

As @Riverside mentioned, I did some work on this earlier this year, in this Google map. I basically threw up my hands at getting from GJ southbound towards Lechmere, but I did figure out how to do the GJ/GLX Union Square Branch split without modifying the McGrath Highway bridge.

The NJ River Line is otherwise freight-only, so freight runs at night and light rail during the day. This is absolutely not an option with a heavily-used commuter rail line.

I really hope that means they're putting in a crosswalk from the corner of Broadway and Rogers. Otherwise everyone will just jaywalk across the middle of the intersection rather than take the half-block detour to cross at a crosswalk.

The hell? That is just mind-boggling incompetence in user experience, even by MBTA standards.

From the Somerville Transportation Equity Partnership mailing list:

The entire point of accelerated bridge construction is being able to replace the bridge rapidly, with a minimal shutdown time. Since the piers were being replaced (which I'm assuming was necessary), that was not an option, so they had to build the temporary bridge. At that point you might as...

Sure, replacing the superstructure of an overpass on the existing abutments can be done in a weekend, but it is overall more expensive and time-consuming than conventional construction; the advantage is that most of the construction happens off-line. Since the NWSB project involved building new...

Interesting idea. Unlikely at best to actually happen. But if it did, looks to me like it would make sense to put the north portal just past Chelsea High School, which eliminates a nasty curve and most of the elevated highway. But, staging the construction will be a huge and expensive problem no...